The Surescripts Blog

Although we’ve made great strides in e-prescribing adoption over the past 10 years, not all aspects of the process have been fully optimized. One question I hear all too often is: “Why do I still receive prescription refill requests by fax from electronically enabled pharmacies?”

Healthcare leaders took to the Twittersphere on Friday, July 24, 2015 to address how technology is playing an increasingly critical role in senior care in the latest installment of Politico's #OutsideIn Twitter Chat series.

Whether it’s to ensure network security, enhance big data collection and application, or harness the cloud more effectively, IT automation is a necessity for the efficient operation of any organization.

In today’s increasingly digitized healthcare system, where electronic networks are responsible for the delivery of quality, timely, efficient patient care, downtime doesn’t just impact business, but health and safety as well.

As the founding fathers fought for our country’s right for liberation, advocates passionately argue it is every patient’s right to obtain their medical records and have easy access to their health data electronically.

Until recently, Long Term and Post Acute Care providers have been left out of Meaningful Use and other government mandated health IT incentives, causing a slower rate of HIT adoption among those care providers.

Deaths involving prescription painkiller overdoses have quadrupled since 1999 – outpacing even those from heroin and cocaine by 2007, making the need to adopt a safer, more effective way to prescribe these medications greater than ever.